Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The harder news, like the protests at Walmart in Ontario, Louisiana, got a lot less air time. While I have much sympathy for the protestors in Louisiana, I don’t have much hope for their getting better pay. I guess it is the story of the day, but how much can you make of it, what is there to say?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. She started a business selling gas cylinders with a loan from MFW that helped her buy two cars to make deliveries. She is even mulling a run for office in the gas providers’ union.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2015

The founders early on identified the core issues and articulated the “problem;” they recognized the “opportunity” represented by the immense resources of the colonies; and they designed a “solution” in a new kind of government, ruled by the people themselves. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

I am a big advocate of transparency in business and government and believe that many injustices in our society exist because people are ill informed. states (North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas), and have launched a Pop-Up Code Initiative in order to grow coding talent in areas we don’t already have a location at.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Follow the story of Louisiana as you reflect on the data. Bonus: In the spirit of government data, I’ll be remiss if I did not share with you three examples of interactive scatter plots from Our World in Data (produced by the University of Oxford). A bit more complex of a visualization, a function of the depth of data populated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. A lot of them seemed to hate their government and they were annoyed that the government wasn't doing anything.

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